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...only that, my legs are short (as is the rest of me), my eyes are clear only on smogless days and my skin is dormant, not exuberant...
Volume One, Number One, Cost One Dollar of The Washington Monthly includes; Sidey interviewing Bill Moyers of LBJ and Newsday on "The White House Staff vs. The Cabinet"; a piece by Kempton on the Teacher Corps; a story about how Congress favors building SST's and not smogless cars (i.e., your basic air-pollution priority story); a short unfunny piece on what happens after marijuana is legalized in 1989 by Calvin Trillin of the New Yorker; something about Republicans by Stephen Hess, Moynihan's assistant; a piece on statistics; a story called "The Culture of Bureaucracy: The Special Assistant...
Something else the New Leftists have in common with other Utopians is a remarkably detailed concern for the physical environment. They dream of "the total beautiful society" with smogless air, unpolluted rivers, swift and clean public transportation and, in the phrase of Atlanta Lawyer Howard Moore, "airlines carrying the people all over the country to the great museums." Paul Goodman, 55, one of the aging gurus of the New Left, spends much time visualizing how city streets could be turned into playgrounds or parks, and how motor cars could be barred from Manhattan (the last being an idea that should...
Congratulations on TIME'S brilliant reporting of the incredible Los Angeles mess [July 15]. Perish the thought that one day the empire the ubiquitous Chandlers built will engulf us in the central coastal region that we smogless Californians call home...
...Assistant. Serene as a smogless moment in the city, Buffie and Norman start their day with a swim in the Chandler pool behind the square, concrete-block family mansion in the Hancock Park section of town. By 8:30 a.m. Norman rolls out his black Mercedes 300, heads off to the Times building five miles away, where he imperturbably juggles the deskload of problems that reach out from all his financial and civic connections...
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